Inspiration

(Note for our English speaking friends: Quilting is not widely spread across Greece. We are working hardly towards there. Therefore I wrote this article in order to convince people to make patchwork.)

Many people in Greece knit or crochet. However they stop knitting or crocheting during summer. Of course I do not agree with that. I am the person who knits even on the beach.

But if you are among those people who leave needles and hooks for winter, why not trying to make patchwork instead of knitting during summer? We mainly deal with cotton stuff, thus nobody can say that the procedure is “hot” for summer. Therearealsotechniquesthatareabsolutelyportable.

For all the above reasons, I thought of showing you a few things made with the above mentioned technique. Let’ s have a look first of all at purely handwork: “English patchwork”. Here you have some examples:

Why not making a few hexagons and decorate some dull purses?

(vanessachristenson.com)

Take a look how you may transform a boring t-shirt to something more interesting and unique, adding a few small hexagons.

(pinktrees)

And if you are more experienced you may even change your furniture.

(ManuSimon/Pinterest).

Let’s start making hexagons or other co-ordinating shapes (as described here) and put them in a box until you have a lot of them. Then you may decide on your next project. Or you may first decide on the project and then make the hexagons.

(nanacompany.typad.com)

And if you make a lot of them and you also are an artist, then you may make something like the ones below, made by Ans Schipper Vermeiren.